Dust And Ashes

Intro Gm  D7(#5)  Gm  D7(#5) 



              Gm 
Is this how I die? 
D7(#5) 
Ridiculed and laughed at, 
        Gm           D7(#5) 
Wearing clown shoes 
              Gm 
Is this how I die? 
D7(#5) 
Furious and reckless, 
          Gm     D7(#5) 
Sick with booze 
          Cm7/G  Eb6 
How did I live? 
        F7/Eb 
I taste every wasted minute 
      Bb/D   Bb7     Eb    Cm 
Every time I turned away 
                                Ebm6 
From the things that might have healed me 
                     Bbmaj7/D   Eb 
How long have I been sleeping? 



              Gm 
Is this how I die? 
D7(#5) 
Frightened like a child 
         Gm     D7(#5) 
Lazy and numb 
              Cm7 
Is this how I die? 
   Ebmmaj7        Ebm6 
Pretending and preposterous 
    Gm 
And dumb 
          Eb 
How did I live? 
      F7/Eb 
Was I kind enough and good enough? 
      Bb/D Bb7  Eb 
Did I lo-o-ove enough? 
Cm 
   Did I ever look up 
            Ebm6 
And see the moon 
                       Bb/F 
And the stars, and the sky? 
   Ebm/Gb          Bb         Bb7 
Oh why have I been sleeping? 



     Eb          D7 
They say we are asleep 
         Gm7     Fm7 
Until we fall in love 
       Eb6         D7       Gm     Fm7 
We are children of dust and ashes 
    Cm                           F7 
But when we fall in love we wake up 
    D7/F#    Gm       Eb     Bb 
And we are a God, and angels weep 
Ebmaj9                      Bb 
       But if I die here tonight 
  F7        Bb     D7 
I die in my sleep 



Gm        Edim/G       F#dim/A       Gm/A 
All of my life I spent searching the words 
   D7/Bb     Bb+        C            D/C 
Of poets and saints and prophets and kings 
    Gm         Edim/G    F#dim/A        Gm/A 
And now at the end all I know that I’ve learned 
        D7/Bb      Bb+       C            D/C 
Is that all that I know is I don’t know a thing 
   Eb            Bb 
So easy to close off 
          D7       Gm 
Place the blame outside 
Eb           Bb 
Hiding in my room at night, 
   D7   Gm 
So terrified 
Gm               D7/F# 
All the things I could have been 
      Ab/Eb         Eb 
But I never had the nerve 
D7       Gm 
Life and love 
  F     F7 Bb    G7/B 
I don’t de-serve 

       Cm         G7 
So all right, all right, 
     Ab     Eb 
I’ve had my time 
D7       Gm 
Close my eyes, 
Cm/Eb   F     F7    Bb    G7/B 
Let the death bells chime 
Cm         G7 
Bury me in burgundy 
  Ab         Eb 
I just don’t care 
D7        Gm 
Nothing’s left 
Cm/Eb       F  F7 Bb 
I've looked every-where 


 
Gm 
Is this how I die? 
          D7(#5)                             Gm   D7(#5) 
Was there ever any other way my life could be? 
              Cm7 
Is this how I die? 
       Ebmmaj7             Gm 
Such a storm of feelings inside of me? 
                  Eb 
But then why am I screaming? 
         F7/Eb 
Why am I shaking? 
   Bb/D           Bb7              Eb 
Oh God, was there something that I missed? 
Cm7                     Ebmmaj7 
    Did I squander my divinity? 
    Bb/F          D7(#5)/F# 
Was happiness within me the whole time? 



     Eb          D7 
They say we are asleep 
         Gm7     Fm7 
Until we fall in love 
       Eb6         D7       Gm     Fm7 
We are children of dust and ashes 
    Cm                           F7 
But when we fall in love we wake up 
    D7/F#    Gm       Eb     Bb 
And we are a God, and angels weep 
Ebmaj9                      Bb 
       But if I die here tonight 
  F7        Bb     D7 
I die in my sleep 
     Eb          D7 
They say we are asleep 
         Gm7     Bb7 
Until we fall in love 
N.C.       Eb            Ebmmaj7 
And I'm so ready to wake up now 

Coda 

               Bb/D   Ebm6 
I want to wake up 
Bb/F             Ebm/Gb 
    Don’t let me die while I’m like this 
Bb/D  Ebm6  Bb/F  Ebm/G 
               Bb/D  Ebm6 
I want to wake up 
  Bb/F           Ebm/Gb             Bb/D  Ebm6 
God don’t let me die while I’m like this 
Bb/F  Ebm/Gb 
                   Bb/D    Ebm6 
Please let me wake up now 
  Bb/F           Ebm/Gb             Bb/D  Eb6 
God don’t let me die while I’m like this 
Bb/F  Ebm/Gb 
    Bb/D   Ebm6 
I’m ready 
Bb/F   Ebm/Gb 
    D7(#5)/Ab  Ebm/Bb 
I’m ready 

Ebm/C   Bb/D   B7 
B7  B7 

N.C.    Bb  Ebm6 
To wake up 

Bb  Ebm6/C  Bb